Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, Australia
Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, Australia
PORT FAIRY - Griffiths Island Walk - Victoria.
Griffiths Island, sometimes incorrectly spelled as Griffith Island or Griffitts Island, lies at the mouth of the Moyne River next to, and within the bounds of, the town of Port Fairy, in the Western District of the state of Victoria in Australia.
Visit Griffiths Island, with its colony of shearwater seabirds, winding pathways and the spectacular lighthouse at the eastern tip, is a great place to explore.
The island is about 1.5 kilometres long and 0.8 kilometres wide at its widest point. It is bordered on its northern side by the Moyne River, which has been channeled between stone 'training walls' and provides easy access by sea to the port of Port Fairy. Originally a cluster of three separate islands – Goat, Rabbit and Griffiths – harbour works have consolidated them into a single island which protects the mouth of the Moyne and shelters Port Fairy Bay.
It is named after John Griffiths, an entrepreneur and merchant from Launceston in northern Tasmania.
From the mid 1830s until 1843 the island served as a base for a bay whaling station for Southern Right Whales, until the supply of whales was exhausted and the industry went into terminal decline. Some shipbuilding also took place during the 1840s. The abandoned whaling station buildings were later used until 1854 by Flora Dunlop, widow of Victorian politician Alexander Dunlop, as a ‘mission’ for young Aborigines. Because of its historic and archaeological significance, the island has been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
There is a large breeding colony of short-tailed shearwaters, locally known as ‘muttonbirds’, with an estimated 100,000 burrows (of which probably fewer than half are occupied during the September–April breeding season).
Griffiths Island has been reserved as public land since 30 April 1902 with Moyne Shire Council (formerly the Borough of Port Fairy) the Committee of Management since 11 June 1902.
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Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, Australia
Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, Australia
Griffith Island Reserve Port Fairy Australia with live walibi's pics
PORT FAIRY, AUSTRALIA - images from Griffith Island Reserve Port Fairy Australia with live walibi's
Port Fairy & Griffiths Island shearwater seabirds & lighthous Victoria, Australia
Port Fairy & Griffiths Island (shearwater seabirds & lighthous) Victoria, Australia
Griffiths Island, Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia by greatvedas
Port Fairy, VIC, Australia.
Shot on 20 April 2014 on our way back from South Australia trip.
We camped at Grampians, drove all night to Mt Mount Gambier, explored caves, blue lake, dormant volcanoes and left to Naracoorte.
Visited local wonders ( of course caves ) camped over night and left to Port Fairy.
spend next day at Port Fairy and moved to Port Campbell.
Camped all night and travelled back to Melbourne.
Port Fairy Lighthouse
Port Fairy Lighthouse.
This small island now has no permanent inhabitants, but is connected to the mainland by a causeway and is accessible on foot. The Griffiths Island Lighthouse was built in 1859 as a navigation aid at a time when Port Fairy was an important trading port for western Victoria. The lighthouse was initially manned by two keepers. The last keeper to live on the island was there from 1929 to 1954, when the light was automated; the two stone keepers’ cottages were subsequently demolished in about 1956.
We went out several times to the lighthouse, both walking and on bikes. There are two tracks to the lighthouse, a short one, and a long one. The old one goes around the south and eastern sides of the island past all the birds that nest on the island. The information centre told us that the birds are struggling to survive given water temperatures had changed and the fish are apparently deeper in the ocean - unfortunately the birds couldn’t dive down deep to get them. So since we didn’t think this was a good idea to show our children, we took the shorter route that goes along the north part of the island. One day we counted heaps of small black wallaby’s, were other times we didn’t see any. We also saw an echidna one day.
However the most exiting visit was when the lighthouse was open and we could go in and up it. It was great to be able to climb the same stairs as the lighthouse keeper did back in 1859. We saw the old and the new replaced light also. Below if some of the pictures we took on this visit.
As a family we enjoy exploring Australia. This is a small trip we did in January 2020 to Western Victoria, Australia. More details can be seen at
Landscape Photography | Port Fairy Lighthouse
Today I am in the beautiful town of Port Fairy along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria Australia. When I arrived here I heard about a lighthouse on Griffiths Island, which is only ½ hours walk from the hotel. So I decided to do a sunrise shot of the lighthouse and was not disappointed. Griffiths Island is a beautiful location and had a great time exploring and photographing it.
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Image #1
Lighthouse Port Fairy
Nikon D750, 16-35mm f/4 lens @ 35mm
1/5 sec. @ f/8.0, ISO 100
Software Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop 2018 CC
Image #2
Lighthouse With Rocky Shore
Nikon D750, 16-35mm f/4 lens @ 30mm
1/6 sec. @ f/8.0, ISO 100
Software Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop 2018 CC
Photographic Equipment:
Nikon D750
Nikon 16-35mm f/4 Lens
Nikon 20mm f/1.8 Lens
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 Lens
Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 Lens
Nikon 105mm f/1.8 Macro Lens
Filters:
B+W 10 Stop ND
B+W 0.6 ND
Sigma Circular Polarizer
Lee 100mm System set of ND Soft Grad’s 0.3, 0.6 & 0.9
Port Fairy Lighthouse, Sunrise Time Lapse
Time Lapse of a sunrise at Port Fairy Lighthouse On Griffiths Island.
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[Wikipedia] Griffiths Island
Griffiths Island, sometimes incorrectly spelled as Griffith Island, lies at the mouth of the Moyne River next to, and within the bounds of, the town of Port Fairy, in the Western District of the state of Victoria in Australia. Griffiths now has no permanent inhabitants, but is connected to the mainland by a causeway and is accessible on foot. It forms part of the Port Fairy and Belfast Coastline Protection Reserve and, as well as being a tourist attraction, is an important site in the context of the history of European settlement of western Victoria. It is managed by the Moyne Shire Council.
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